[PLUG] getting a file's character set?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jun 23 23:15:45 UTC 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Brent Rieck wrote:

> I can't seem to make it output a character set, I get mime types and type
> of file but no character sets (ie: windows-1250 or utf-8) - does your file
> command determine character sets?

   man file shows no option to reveal the character set used to display the
file.

Rich

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